masque du bronze". Hemochromatosis was referred to as "the bronze killer" in an editorial by Clement Finch, Professor of Medicine Emeritus of the University of Washington, in the Western Journal of Medicine, September 1990. Warder went on to found hemochromatosis societies in South Africa and Canada. Warder has also published more than 300 articles on the subject of hemochromatosis, as well as patient literature for individuals, hospitals and other medical facilities. Her newsletters and brochures have gone out to more than 16 countries. Other activities In addition to her activities as a writer and activist, Warder has been an educator, founding and serving as the first principal of Windsor House Academy, a "dual-medium" school in Kempton Park, South Africa; and a musician, playing piano and clavioline with her husband's band. and, late in life, a lay chaplain at the Delta Hospital in Ladner, British Columbia. Bibliography Fiction English Afrikaans Nonfiction (Updated in 2000 as The Bronze Killer: New Edition (Dromedaris Books, ) including "Iron: The Other Side of the Story", a layman's guide to hemochromatosis) Recognition For her efforts in founding the CHS, Warder was presented with a certificate of appreciation on 11 April 1988 by Mayor G.J. Blair, of Richmond, British Columbia "in recognition of her contribution to voluntary service" in that city, one year after he had been the first Mayor in Canada to proclaim an annual week of awareness for Hemochromatosis. During the first Awareness Week, 523 new cases of hemochromatosis were diagnosed. In 2011, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Bio-Iron Conference held in Vancouver, "honoring her lifelong involvement and dedication to the awareness of Hemochromatosis around the world." Some years ago, the Minister of Health for Canada declared May each year to be a month of National Awareness for the disorder and it is now also observed by organizations in other countries for instance the United States. Warder was awarded the Canada Volunteer Award in 1991 by the Health and Welfare Canada for her work and advocacy of raising awareness of hemochromatosis. Death Warder died on 20 October 2014. Notes Hart Sonder Liefde and Penny of the Morning Star - the story of a girl reporter References 1927 births 2014 deaths People from Ficksburg South African non-fiction writers South African women novelists 20th-century South African novelists 20th-century women writers